I also heard good things about Nobara in terms of gaming. Haven’t tried it myself though.

OliveTin looks interesting, thanks!

1 it is just an example

2 not what I asked but thanks for your input

Apes together weak

Great to hear, thanks again!

Awesome, that is exactly the type of first hand experience and description I was looking for! Thanks!

Is there anything to be expected when updating the system to a new version? Maybe you haven’t done that yet…

No encryption as far as I am aware of, unless its standard in windows 10 and I don’t know about it. I have experience with partitioning, so I’ll have a think if this is worth trying or not.

Have already backed up important windows files anyway.

“Need” for windows is just my wife who uses the same laptop. VM might be an idea but it will still be “different” and she is not very technical. So yeah, it has to be dual boot for the beginning, so I might in the end just go for a different distro that is easier to set this up with.

Thanks! I have seen those links but haven’t had time to read them fully yet, they looked like just discussing around the issue to me, not solving it. But I will have a closer look again, thanks for highlighting those.

Yeah, try to avoid using USB hard drives.

Can you elaborate for which use case you’d see them as less reliable than other options? I am using USB connected drives now for about 2 years in a home setup and haven’t had any bad experiences. My use case might be a lot more low tech and than others though.

Wait, defrag is still running…

Ah, defragging your hard drive was such a Zen experience

If its for research paper storage and organising, why not something dedicated like Zotero? Or even Menedely, that’s more commercially oriented. You can pay for online storage space for either and it names and organises your papers for you. If she is concerned about TOS changes and AI enshittiffication I’d stay away from Menedley though, its an Elsevier product by now (massive scientific publisher).

Seconded, have been using it for a while and its simple and great!

Haha, wife bad!

I’d agree but you can expand this quite widely then. You think they don’t need their pictures anymore, in case you host something like Immich/Photoprism? If you host movies, series, games, they may not need them anymore but it would still be noticeable that they are not accessible anymore.

Not that I am saying you are wrong or what a good way of doing that would be. I don’t know myself.

This is an ad.

No mention of OSMand, Organic Maps, or even Magic Earth

I see you don’t use Immich or you like to live dangerously! Hats off to you!

Haven’t even had time yet for the 10.9 upgrade.

I can sense a Latina joke in there…